The building of the present temple was replaced, possibly in 1570, during the reign of D.Sebastian. Thecformer chapel of Santa Maria was erect in 1459 by Prince Henry. After the 1755 earthquake, was rebuilt and added the sacristy and the bell tower. It features a simple quadrangular single nave with small windows isolated on the […]
The Fortress of Sagres, also referred to as Sagres Castle is located in a dominant position crowning the Ponta de Sagres, in the southwest of the Algarve in Portugal. At the steep cliff, constantly windswept, the visitor enjoys a stunning panoramic along the coast, especially in the coves of Sagres, Cabo San Vicente (extreme southwest […]
There is no certainty whether it was the Ponta de Sagres, whose name came from Sacrum Promontorium, or the nearby Cape St Vincent, that was thought to be sacred promontory. Estrabo(was a historian, geographer and Greek philosopher) believed that the promontory was the westernmost point of “all the inhabited world”. In fact, the Cape […]
When Henry, the Navigator, son of King John I and Duke of Viseu, started its holdings, began the Age of Discovery in the Vila do Infante for Sagres peninsula had no requirements for such undertaking. There was little drinking water, agriculture was residual, there was a shortage of wood for shipbuilding, there was no deep […]
